Health routines
The men who climbed and the men who sat
In London around 1950, Jerry Morris compared the men who drove buses with the men who climbed their stairs, then found a flaw in his own result. Research and a book its publisher bills as a bestseller show what exercise science can and cannot claim. This is a story, not health advice.
Major #13: Kinesiology and Exercise ScienceThe story: Jerry Morris (1950s). The book: Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia with Bill Gifford.
In this lesson
- Two jobs on one bus
- The evidence in the uniforms
- What the research says
- The book: Outlive
- What the evidence says about the book
- Where this comes from
- Try it today
- 4 questions to check yourself